GENUS MELOLONTHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Melolontha mean? 

• GENUS MELOLONTHA (noun)
  The noun GENUS MELOLONTHA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Melolonthidae

  Familiarity information: GENUS MELOLONTHA used as a noun is very rare.

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• GENUS MELOLONTHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Melolonthidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Melolontha; Melolontha

Hypernyms ("genus Melolontha" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Melolontha"):

cockchafer; May beetle; May bug; Melolontha melolontha (any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult)

Holonyms ("genus Melolontha" is a member of...):

Melolonthidae; subfamily Melolonthidae (considered a separate family in some classification systems)